Wow this was fun to put together!
Rather than trying to assemble a personal Top 25, I tried to find 25 games that, for various reasons, speak to different parts of my ✨Core Essence✨It's not organized in any particular way, although generally the games that I thought of first are higher up on the list, so I suppose they were closer to top-of-mind?
I tried to reach a happy medium between games from my childhood and adulthood, and I also tried to mix in some more niche stuff with the big obvious ones like Chrono Trigger and Hollow Knight. Donkey Kong refers to the 1994 gameboy game, and Battletoads refers to the arcade version.
Are these the greatest games of all time? Nahhhh. I mean some of them are great, don't get me wrong. But overall these are the games that, if we were hanging out together on a lazy afternoon, I would get the most joy out of handing to you and watching you play.
